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Ecclesiastes 4:2-3
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2 I said to myself, “The dead are better off than the living. 3 But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth.”

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Ecclesiastes 4:2-3
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2 And I declared that the dead,(A)
    who had already died,
are happier than the living,
    who are still alive.(B)
3 But better than both
    is the one who has never been born,(C)
who has not seen the evil
    that is done under the sun.(D)

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